Category: M
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Medical trade area
An area from which one or more specified providers draw their patients; similar to catchment area except that it is defined by the patients rather than the provider.
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Medical technologist
A specially trained individual who performs a wide range of complex and specialized procedures in all general areas of the clinical laboratory. An estimated 76,200 medical technologists were certified and active in 1973. Approximately two-thirds of all medical technologists are employed in hospital laboratories. Most others are employed in physicians’ private laboratories, clinics, the armed…
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Medical staff
Collectively, the physicians, dentists, and other professionals responsible for medical care in a health facility, typically a hospital. Such staff may be full-time or part-time, employed by the hospital or not, and include all professionals who wish to be included (open staff) or just those who meet various standards of competence (closed staff). Staff privileges…
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Medical services administration (MSA)
The bureau which administers the Medicaid program at the Federal level. It is part of the Social and Rehabilitation Service, which administers most of the welfare programs within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. It is an organization of approximately 200 people in Washington’s central office and 100 people in the ten HEW regional…
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Medical record administrator
Plans, designs, develops, and manages systems of patient administrative and clinical data, and patient medical records, in all types of health care institutions. An estimated 9,000 medical record administrators were active in 1973 of which 4,500 were registered record administrators. The minimum educational requirement for professional registration as a medical record administrator is a baccalaureate…
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Medically underserved population
The population of an urban or rural area with a shortage of personal health services or another population group having a shortage of such services. A medically underserved population may not reside in a particular medically under served area, or be defined by its place of residence. Thus migrants, Native Americans or the inmates of…
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Medically underserved area
A geographic location (i.e., an urban or rural area) which has insufficient health resources (manpower and/or facilities) to meet the medical needs of the resident population. Physician shortage area applies to a medically underserved area which is particularly short of physicians. Such areas are also sometimes defined by measuring the health status of the resident…
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Medically needy
In the Medicaid program, persons who have enough income and resources to pay for their basic living expenses (and so do not need welfare) but not enough to pay for their medical care. Medicaid law requires that the standard for income used by a State to determine if someone is medically needy cannot exceed 133…
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Medically indigent
A person who is too impoverished to meet his medical expenses. It may refer to either persons whose income is low enough that they can pay for their basic living costs but not their routine medical care, or alternately, to persons with generally adequate income who suddenly face catastrophically large medical bills.
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Medical laboratory assistant
An individual who works under the direct supervision of a medical technologist, pathologist, physician, or qualified scientist in performing routine laboratory procedures requiring basic technical skills and minimal independent judgment in chemistry, hematology, and microbiology. There were 9,700 certified laboratory assistants (CLA) registered in 1973. Certification is awarded by the Board of Registry following successful…